Lata Mangeshkar biography
  Lata Mangeshkar started her music career in the year 1942 and has now  spent over seven decades in the industry. It is known that she has sung  for thousands of films and has credit for singing in a total of 36  Indian languages as well as foreign languages. She has been credited  with India's most renowned award, The Dadasaheb Phalke award, in the  year 1989. Childhood life of Lata Mangeshkar Lata  Mangeshkar was born in Indore Central province which is now in Madhya  Pradesh of India in the year 1929 (28 September). She is the eldest  child of her parents, father Deenanath Mangeshkar and mother Shevanti  Mangeshkar. Lata Mangeshkar‘s father was a famous Marathi theatre  actor, musician and also a vocalist. His father belongs to a small town  in Goa called Mangeshkar and this is the reason why he changed his  surname from Haridkar to Mangeshkar. Did you know that Lata Mangeshkar's  birth name was not Lata but Hema? Father changed her name to Lata later  after being inspired ...